One year after the first humanitarian Cardiology mission to Sierra Leone, Prof. Thomas Crawford is back in the small West African country to follow up and evaluate patients whose pacemakers were implanted by the Country Team and those patients treated during the First Humanitarian Cardiac Mission.

The 42nd Annual General and Scientific Congress of the West African College of Physicians (WACP) kicked off Monday, 5th November, 2018 at the Bintumani International Conference Center in Freetown, preoccupied with the challenges facing the region’s health laboratories and the emergence of ‘super bugs’- bacteria now resistant to antibiotics.

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Jacob Jusu Saffa, says the economy of the small mineral-rich West African country is struggling and blames policies of the past regime as the main reason.

Mr. Francis Langumba Keili, Director of Planning and Inter-Agency
Relations at the ONS said “lawlessness and indiscipline are becoming insurmountable
and rank within the first and second security threats for the past five years.”

Chairman of All Works of Life Development Association (AWOL), Amb. Anthony Navo Jnr., has pledged that the organization would continue to complement the effort of the Government of Sierra Leone, especially in the area of education. Speaking on Saturday, 16th… Read More ›